Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch is hopeful Christmas will come early with his first winner from his new North Queensland satellite stable at Cairns on Thursday.

After 30 years in the game, Kris Hansen is almost ready to take over the family business.

Rockhampton’s darling filly Sweet Dolly, purchased as a weanling for just $1,500, has been retired.

Sweet Dolly, the rags to riches princess of Rockhampton racing, is just over three weeks away from making her long awaited return after being nursed back to health by trainer Kevin Hansen.

Kevin Hansen is reluctant to compare his promising filly Heroic Angel with her close relative Sweet Dolly, but that could soon change if she wins the Listed Calaway Gal Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday.